St. Martin (Forchheim)

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Martinskirche

St. Martin is a former collegiate monastery in Forchheim in Bavaria in the archdiocese of Bamberg .

history

Main nave, aisle, choir

The church emerged from the own chapel of a Carolingian royal court, in which several synods took place under Carolingians and Ottonians . It was also important in the missionary work of the Main Slavs .

The diocese of Würzburg received the church in 976 through a donation from Otto I , and the diocese of Bamberg in 1017 through an exchange. Around 1200, the old royal church was replaced by a late Romanesque church with a cross-shaped floor plan, of which part of the transept and the crypt below are still preserved. The Bamberg Bishop Leopold von Bebenburg turned it into a monastery in 1354 . In the 14th century, the church was expanded into a high Gothic basilica, but the upper aisles have been hidden under a gable roof since 1540. The main nave of the nave has a plastered flat beamed ceiling. The other parts of the church are vaulted. The tower was first mentioned in 1406, and has had its current shape since 1670.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, Forchheim Abbey came to the Electorate of Bavaria , which had already occupied it militarily the previous year. With the secularization of the monastery in 1803 the church became an ordinary parish church.

literature

  • Andreas Jakob: The collegiate monastery near St. Martin in Forchheim. Basics of the history of the monastery and the parish in the second capital of the bishopric Bamberg 1354-1803 . Publishing house HO Schulze. Lichtenfels 1998. - at the same time dissertation University Erlangen-Nürnberg 1993, ISBN 3-87735-144-1 .
  • Andreas Jakob: The collegiate monastery near St. Martin in Forchheim. Basics of the history of the monastery and the parish in the second capital of the bishopric Bamberg 1354-1803. Volume 2: The Personnel Lists . Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-944452-10-4 .
  • Peter Poscharsky: The churches of Franconian Switzerland . 4th improved edition. Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-7896-0099-7 , pp. 164-169.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '10.9 "  N , 11 ° 3' 26.3"  E